Earth Abides Summary

Isherwood Williams, a college student working on his thesis, is in the Black Creek Area when he finds an old miner's hammer and is bitten by a rattlesnake. He's not aware of the fact that the "acting president" of the United State has suspended governmental operations and that burials at sea in California have now been abandoned. Ish survives the snakebite coupled with something that he calls an infection then heads...

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George R. Stewart Biographies (1)

George Rippey Stewart was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, the son of George and Ella May Wilson Rippey Stewart. He was awarded an A.B. at Princeton in 1917 before serving two years in the U.S. Army f...
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